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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by grkvlt on Thursday April 02, 2015 @10:53AM (#9311013)
The entry criteria aren't based on something like the SAT, although International Baccelaureate perhaps comes close in Europe? Not sure, maybe someone else can explain?

So there are no prep classes or anything like that in the UK. Everyone sits the same set of exams (modulo being Scottish or English/Welsh/NI, which have different types of qualification) and those results dictate whether you can go to University or not. I suppose you could study more if you wanted?

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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by ryandrake on Thursday April 02, 2015 @03:41PM (#9312697)
Surely anywhere there are exams, there are rich parents paying for exam prep in order to gain an advantage.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by chronial on Friday April 03, 2015 @04:16AM (#9314877)
In Germany, university admission is based on your final grades in school, which are an accumulation of your grades of the last two years.

Rich parents can of course help their kids be better in school, but there is no efficient exam prepping.

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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by eru on Friday April 03, 2015 @11:55AM (#9316550)
Grades only really matter for medicine, psychology, and perhaps law. If you want to be an engineer or physicist or mathematician etc, they take everyone.
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